Product Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy.

In this work of model clarity, Yves Simon discusses the basic insights of the creators of modern thought: Descartes, Newton, Galileo, Comte, Mach, Meyerson, Bergson, Planck, and the issues at stake in the development of modern science and in the rejection of the Aristotelian physics.Simon distinguishes between a philosophy of nature and a science of nature -- and grants a real value to both. A discussion of this vexing problem and its application to the modern controversy over determinism and chance raised by modern physics rounds out this philosophical and historical highlighting of man's most important theories of nature.

First published in 1958 this classic study discusses tacit knowledge and its influence in many fields from theology to artificial intelligence.

Product Description: In Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is one of the greatest actresses England–so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting...read more

Product Description: Book by Boudreau, Nancy S., Sincich, Terry

Product Description: The description for this book, Science Without Numbers: The Defence of Nominalism, will be forthcoming.

Product Description: This volume is dedicated to Mario Bunge in honor of his sixtieth birthday. Mario Bunge is a philosopher of great repute, whose enormous output includes dozens of books in several languages, which will culminate with his Treatise on Basic Philosophy projected in seven volumes, four of which have already appeared [Reidel, I 974ff...read more

Product Description: Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Käufer können in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes...read more

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Product Description: Book by Vasilii Vasil'Evich Nalimov

Product Description: When I take up a new book I always read its conclusions first. For I have discovered that even difficult books have conclusions that are easy to read and that give a first idea of their content. Of course, I expect my readers to do this also! Indeed, the present book offers them an opportunity for generalizing the method...read more

Product Description: Examines the complex issues of the mind-body problem, consciousness, the nature of thought, science & religion, & universal mind. 1987, some wear to covers